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ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React

You're reading from   ReactJS by Example - Building Modern Web Applications with React Building Modern Web Applications with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289644
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vipul A M Vipul A M
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Preface 1. Getting Started with React FREE CHAPTER 2. JSX in Depth 3. Data Flow and Life Cycle Events 4. Composite Dynamic Components and Forms 5. Mixins and the DOM 6. React on the Server 7. React Addons 8. Performance of React Apps 9. React Router and Data Models 10. Animation 11. React Tools 12. Flux 13. Redux and React Index

Back at the office


The duo was back at work. Mike entered with a cup of coffee. It was morning and the office had just started to buzz.

"So Shawn, we did a lot of complex forms stuff last time. Our cart flow is now complete. However, now we have been asked to add a timeout to the cart. We need to show a timer to the user that they need to checkout and complete the order in 15 minutes."

"Any idea how we can do this?"

"Umm, maintain a state for timer and keep updating every second? Take some action when the timer hits zero."

"Right! We will use intervals to reduce the timeout values and keep updating our views to display the timer. As we have been storing the form data in a single place, our Bookstore component, let's go ahead and add a state value that will track this timeout value. Let's change our initial state to something similar to the following:"

getInitialState() {
    return ({currentStep: 1, formValues: {}, cartTimeout: 60 * 15});
  }

"60 X 15, that's 15 minutes in seconds value. We will...

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